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Re: Connglish

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, November 20, 2006, 12:48
On 11/20/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> They speak Spanish at home & are taught their catechism in Spanish > (because their catechists are not fluent in English), but must speak > English in school.
See, woefully ignorant of Church terminology as I am, it would never have occurred to me that there was such a word as "catechist", and if there were I would have assumed by analogy with other -ism/-ist pairs that it referred more generally to someone who believed in the doctrine explained by the catechsm, not specifically an instructor... But Now I Know, and Knowing is Half the Battle! -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>